Areal Reduction Factors for Two Eastern United States Regions with High Rain-Gauge Density

Abstract

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Technical Paper-29, published in the late 1950s, remains the most commonly used reference for estimating extreme areal precipitation from station data in the United States. Although a number of alternative methods have been proposed over the intervening years, a rigorous evaluation of the assumptions used in the compilation of TP-29 has not been presented. Overall, TP-29 areal reduction factors provide a conservative means of relating station precipitation extremes to basin average values. For watershed areas less than